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DSO KEEPS TRUCKIN' - AUDITIONS FOR KEYS

Following a brief pause in the music following the sudden, tragic loss of band
co-founder, keyboardist, and vocalist Scott Larned on April 24th, Chicago-based
Grateful Dead tribute act, Dark
Star Orchestra, has vowed that the ‘music never stop’ and plan
to continue as a nationally-touring entity.

Scott Larned by Sam Freidman

Scott Larned
passed on from complications from heart failure during the last week of the
band’s Spring tour and cancelled six of the remaining shows that tour.
Dark Star Orchestra will resume touring with their May 27th Irving
Plaza performance with ‘special guests’ filling the keyboardist/vocalist
slot throughout the May and June tour. The band is currently auditioning for
keyboardists as a full-time, touring replacement only.
Qualified, serious, and interested applicants may email DSO band manager Norman
Gopin for more information.

A recent message from DSO band mate Rob Eaton (rhythm guitar, vocals) accurately
sums up the band's perspective and feelings:

The remaining band and crew have decided to continue and move forward playing
the music of the Grateful Dead. Scott would have wanted it that way. He worked
very hard to build the band to the place it is today and it would be an injustice
to him and the music to pack it in. One great way to honor his memory is to
play on. The music is bigger then any one of us and that's something Scott always
professed.

Will it be the same? It will be different but the music is the same and that's
what will get us all through. Our next tour will be a difficult one for us emotionally
and we hope our family and friends will be there to help us through. We will
start our next tour with "very special guests" filling in on keys
until we can find just the right person to join our family full time. Scott's
passing has brought us together in a way we never imagined. Scott will always
be with us at every show and at every turn.

I would like to share very good memory of scott. At promowest pavillion a few years ago the sound system was messed up so D.S.O decided that was not going to stop them from putting on a show and they came down and played acoustic. I do not know what it was called but it was a hand held keyboard slash harmonica thing. I love D.S.O and scott will be greatly missed by me and my whole family. AN OTHER GOOD MAN GONE

I thoroughly enjoyed watching Scott pearing around his audience in front of him through the bottom half of his bi-focals, enjoying the crowd's reaction to the wonderful music he and the band sprinkled down to us. You will be missed brotha!